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- Patented April 14, 1868 i No. 76,865.

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Lam Patent 1%. 76,865, dated April 14, 1 868.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED PLANTERS AND MANURE-DISTRIBUTERS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY oowonnu Q Be it known that I, BENJAMIM F. .WHITNEB, of Madison, in the county of Madison, and State of Florida, have invented a new and improved Planter and Manure-Distributor; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification. I

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved machine, part being broken away to show the construction.

Figure 2 is a detail top view of the hopper for dropping seed. I

Figure 3 is a detail top view of the covering-drag.

Figure 4is a detail view of the adjustable dropping-cylinder.

Figure 5 is a detail sectional view of the'same.

Figure 6 is a detail sectional view of the discharging-hopper.

Figure 7 is a detail cross-section of the same, taken through theline z, fig. 6.

Figure 8 is a detail bottom view of one end of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to improve the construction of my planter and manure-distributor, patented May 21, 1867, and numbered 64,926, so as to make it more convenient and effective in operation, and so as to adapt it'to planting short cotton; and it consists in the construction of the dropping-cylinder, in the combine tion of a removable weight with the covering-drag, and in the constructionof the parts for dropping the c0tt0n= seed, the whole being constructed and arranged as hereinafter more fully described.

.A are the handles, B is the frame, 0 is the furrow-wheel, and D is the adjustable furrowing plough, about the construction of which parts there is nothing new. E is a. large seed-hopper, which is permanently attached to the frame 13. F is a removable hopper for dropping seeds, which is fitted into the lower part'of the hopper E, and which is secured in place, when adjusted, by bolts passing down through the shoulders of the hopperE, and through the frame B. The hopper Fr'is adjusted by set-screws passing through its ends, and the ends of which rest against the shoulders of the hopper- E. I

G are brushes, which are adjustahly attached to the. ends of the hopper F, so'as to prevent the escape of anymore than the desired amount of seed. v I

H is the dropping-cylinder, which revolves in bearings attached to the under side of the frame B, in such a position that the lower edge of-the hopper F may fit upon the said cylinder. The cylinder H is formed with two flanges, 7i and If, between which is placed the recessed-ring I. One of the flanges, It, is formed solidly upon the cylinder H, and the other, If, is movable, being held in place, clamping the recessed ring between the said flanges h fi by the nut 7r, screwing upona screw-thread out upon the shaft or cylinder H, as shown in fig. 4. The ring I is made in two parts,'for convenience in attaching and removing it. The face of the ring I is recessed, as shown in figs. 4 and 5, according to the size of the seed to be planted, and the quantity to be dropped in each hill. This renders it necessary that as many rings should be used as different tins 4 seeds are to be planted.

J is the covering-drag, which is made in the form shown in figs. 1 and-3. The drug J is connected to the frame B by the chains j, and is dragged along the ground in the rear ofthe hoppers" The drug 5 rests upon its middle part, and as it is drawn forward it forces the soil back into the open furrow, covering the seed, and leaving the ground smoothly levelled oil. I

K is a weight so formed as to fit the upper side of the drag J. In smooth, light soils, the weight K willnot be'reqhired, but, where the ground is rouglya better result is obtained bv attaching the weight K, which is secured in place by a screw or screws, as shown in figs. 1 and '3.

When the machine is to be used for dropping short or upland-cotton seed, the hopper F and the cylinder H I are removed. 7

M is the cottonseed-discharging hopper, which is made in two parts, mm, and is adjustably attached'to the under side of the frame B, by screws which-pass through slots in the ends of the said parts, and screw into the said frame B. This enables the parts on and m" to be moved farther apart or nearer together, according to the amount of seed desired to be dropped. i

N is a shaft revolving in bearings attached'to the under sideof the frame 13, and having a circle or series of radial arms, n, formedupon or attached to its central part, which said arms should be of such a length as to just reach through the opening or slot between the parts in m' of the hopper M. The cylinder or shaft N has also one or more arms, n attached 'to it, upon each side of the radial arms 51.,but shorter than said arms, so as to work within the hopper M, and keep the seed stirred up, at the same time working it down constantly towards the disel arging slot or opening, so that it may be' pushed out by thearms n, The cylinders lrlhavca' pulley or pulleys attached to one or both their ends, around which, and around the pulley or pulleys attached to the end or ends of the shaft of the furrowwheel 0, passes a band or chain L, so that the said cylinders may be operated by the advance of the machine.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. Making one of the flanges, 7L2, of the cylinder H movable, and securing it in place, eiamping the ointed H, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. Adjustably securing the hopper F in place within the hopper E, by means of bolts and set-screws, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of a removable Weight,'K with the covering-drag J, substantiallyas herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth. i i

4. The discharging-hopper M, constructed in two parts, in substantially the form herein shown and described, and adjustably secured to the under side of the frame B, as and for the purpose set forth. 5. The stirrer-shaft or cylinder N, having' radial arms, n, and side-arms, 11?, attached to or formed upon it, in combination with the peculiarly-shaped hopper M, and with the frame B, substantially as hcreiii shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 2d day of November, 1867 B. F. WHITNER.

Witnesses:

WM. F. McNAMAnA, JAMEs T. GRAHAM.

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